The following schools function in Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University:

«Pedagogical Aspects of Talent»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor ╬. E. Antonova.

Leading Scientific Project: theoretical and methodological basis of creating scientific-pedagogical assistance of the gifted personality including problems of the essence and nature of talent, possibilities to develop talent in different spheres of activity, educating gifted youth and students (theoretical and methodological basis, the history of the problem, comparative analysis, technologies of teaching); working out psychological and pedagogical assistance of the gifted personality; preparing teachers for work with gifted pupils on the basis of modern pedagogical technologies; creating scientific-methodological centre of work with gifted students (program, conception, technologies of teaching).

«Theoretical-Methodological Basis of Supervising the System of Pupils’ Physical Training»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Physical Training and Sports), Professor R. F. Akhmetov.

Unites the scholars of the Department of Physical Training Theory and Methodology.

Leading Scientific Project: Implementing conceptual model of supervising pupils’ and students’ physical development, working out new methods and ways of supervising stage-oriented preparation of students-athletes.

«Preparation of Masters for Pedagogical Activities»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor S. S. Vitvytska.

Leading Scientific Project: investigating the process of Masters’ preparation for innovative pedagogical activity; structural and functional analysis of the prospective teachers’ preparation system; implementation of scientific-educational projects during which a university teacher is prepared; working out scientific-methodological process of preparing specialists in the sphere of education.

«Philosophical Dimension of Ecology Problems»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor └. └. Gerasymchuk.

Unites scholars of the Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Volyn regions, has prepared 4 Doctors of Sciences and 15 Candidate of Sciences.

Leading Scientific Project: Testing human existence: classical and post-classical discourse in which religious, philosophical aspects of environmental problems are viewed in the context of globalization; the role of humanitarian paradigm is specified in the context of solving environmental problems in philosophical discourse.

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor ╬. └. Dubaseniuk.

Leading Scientific Project: problems of theory and methodology of professional education, theory and history of pedagogics, topical problems of educating pupils and students, problems of andragogics and acmeology (psychology).

«▓dentity in the Globalised World»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor ╠. └. ╩ţzlovets.

Leading Scientific Project: Testing human existence: classical and post-classical discourse in which problems of social philosophy, philosophy of history, national and cultural identity under the conditions of globalization are solved; the role of humanitarian paradigm in the context of socio-cultural, state and geopolitical processes is specified.

«Pedagogical Country Study of Great Volyn and Moral-Ethical Basis of Forming Personality»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor ╠. V. Levkivskyi.

Leading Scientific Project: qualitatively new approach to using country study material in the process of educating students and pupils.

«Mykola Nykonchuk Polissia Dialectological School»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor V. ╠. ╠ţysienko.

Leading Scientific Project: Investigation of North-Ukrainian dialect in synchrony and diachrony resulted in international project «┼thnolinguistic Atlas of Pobuzzia», three foreign grants and two State-Budget researches.

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor P. Iu. Saukh.

Unites scholars of the Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Rivne, Volyn regions, has prepared 8 Doctors of Sciences and 45 Candidate of Sciences.

Leading Scientific Project: Testing human existence: classical and post-classical discourse in which problems of social philosophy, philosophy and phenomenology of religion, national and cultural identity under the conditions of globalization are solved; the role of humanitarian paradigm in the context of socio-cultural, state and geopolitical processes is specified.

«Social and Pedagogical Support of the Children at Risk»

Head of the School: Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor ═. └. Seiko.

Leading Scientific Project: Social and pedagogical support of the children in risk groups, problems of children’s socialization professional preparation of social teachers for work with the children at risk, foreign experience in the sphere.

Leading Scientific Project: Theory and history of drama, problems of dramatical art history, dram as art, tendencies in genre creation of world drama, the role of creative personality in the development of drama in the 21st cent.